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The Joy Fund
In July of 2021, I got diagnosed with colon cancer and stage three colon cancer. And I was going to have to have surgery and ultimately went through three months of really intensive chemotherapy, very aggressive chemo. It's so 20 minutes after I got like the news, I had a phone call with my friend Aisha. Before we got off the phone, she had the meal train set up that would ultimately make sure that my family got fed while I was in the hospital recovering from surgery. She then circled up with three other friends of ours and this group of black women who called themselves Mia's care squad. They made spreadsheets like they had email chains, a squad of people who would